Colm Breathnach is a poet, novelist and translator. He has published seven collections of poetry and a selected edition. His latest poetry collection is ‘Dánta’ agus dánta eile (Coiscéim, 2012). He won the principal poetry prize at the annual Conradh na Gaeilge Oireachtas Literary Competitions on four occasions and the Irish American Cultural Institute presented him with the ‘Butler Prize’ in 1999 for his poetry. With Dr. Andrea Nic Thaidhg, he produced a translation of the Günter Grassnovel Katz und Maus under the title Cat agus Luch (Coiscéim, 2009). His first novel, Con Trick “An Bhalla Bháin” (Cló Iar-Chonnacht), a metafictional work which was awarded a special recognition prize at the Oireachtas Literary Competitions, was published in 2009. In 2011 the Minster Literature Centre awarded him a residency with the Shanghai Writers’ Association. In 2012, he was awarded the position of writer in residence with the Slovenian Writers’ Association and guest reader at the Vilenica Literary Festival through the Cúirt Literary Festival, Galway. He has also read at literary festivals in Scotland, Germany, Italy, France and the United States. His collection An Fear Marbh appeared in a Rumanian edition under the title Bărbatul fără viaţă (Ars Longa, Iasi, 1999) and poems of his have also been translated into English, Sottish Gaelic, German, Italian, French, Slovenian and Chinese. He was appointed Irish-language writer in residence in St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra at the beginning of year 2015. The collection Tírdhreacha is due from LeabhairCOMHAR in the autumn.